Hi All 👋 My entry for Cee’s FOTD.
Category: Challenges
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Bink — Things in Scots #13
Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).
Bink (bench) is today’s Things in Scots. Also known as a binch, furm or firm. A bench made of turf is a sunk, a smalll bench is a sunkie and a long wooden bench with a chest below is a lang-settle.
All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
As we do these posts, we’re learning as well; so we apologise in advance for any mistakes
If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything, please let us know!
Hae a guid day
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Brammle — Things in Scots #12
Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).
Brammle (blackberry) is today’s Things in Scots. Other names for these tasty berries are: brambles and ladies’ gartens!
Brammle Flooers
Brammle flooers Brammles
Brammles All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
As we do these posts, we’re learning as well; so we apologise in advance for any mistakes?
If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything, please let us know!
Hae a guid day
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Wordless Wednesday
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Transformation — Flower of the Day Dec 11
Hi All 👋 My entry for Cee’s FOTD.
This is a bit different from my normal two pic post. On Sunday, I got a couple of flowering Cacti that featured in my weekly Fan Of… post. On one of the cacti, there was a huge flower bud at the top.
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Gowan — Things in Scots #11
Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see her post), and we’ll be posting daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).
Gowan (daisy) is today’s Things in Scots. Gowan is the overall general name for daisy’s but there are different names for sub-species.
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Holly — Flower of the Day Dec 10
Holly leafs and berries 
Holly leafs and berries in silvertone
